A Historical View of Active Assisted Living

Sara Colantonio; Slavisa Aleksic; Jean Calleja Agius; Kenneth P. Camilleri; Anto Čartolovni; Pau Climent-Pérez; Stefania Cristina; Vladimir Despotovic; Hazım Kemal Ekenel; Mustafa Ekrem Erakin; Francisco Florez-Revuelta; Danila Germanese; Nicole Grech; Murat Emirzeoğlu; Ivo Iliev; Anna Sigridur Islind; Mladan Jovanovic; Martin Kampel; William Kearns; Andrzej Klimczuk; Lambros Lambrinos; Jennifer Lumetzberger; Wiktor Mucha; Sophie Noiret; Zada Pajalic; Rodrigo Pérez-Rodríguez; Galidiya Petrova; Sintija Petrovica-Klavina; Peter Počta; Angelica Poli; Mara Romanovska; Albert Ali Salah; Maria J. Santofimia; Steinunn Gróa Sigurðardóttir; Susanna Spinsante; Lacramioara Stoicu-Tivadar; Hilda Tellioğlu; Andrej Zgank

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-84158-3_1

A Historical View of Active Assisted Living

Sara Colantonio^*
, Slavisa Aleksic
, Jean Calleja Agius
, Kenneth P. Camilleri
, Anto Čartolovni
, Pau Climent-Pérez
, Stefania Cristina
, Vladimir Despotovic
, Hazım Kemal Ekenel
, Mustafa Ekrem Erakin
, Francisco Florez-Revuelta
, Danila Germanese
, Nicole Grech
, Murat Emirzeoğlu
, Ivo Iliev
, Anna Sigridur Islind
, Mladan Jovanovic
, Martin Kampel
, William Kearns
, Andrzej Klimczuk

Lambros Lambrinos, Jennifer Lumetzberger, Wiktor Mucha, Sophie Noiret, Zada Pajalic, Rodrigo Pérez-Rodríguez, Galidiya Petrova, Sintija Petrovica-Klavina, Peter Počta, Angelica Poli, Mara Romanovska, Albert Ali Salah, Maria J. Santofimia, Steinunn Gróa Sigurðardóttir, Susanna Spinsante, Lacramioara Stoicu-Tivadar, Hilda Tellioğlu, Andrej Zgank

^*Corresponding author for this work

Sub Social and Affective Computing

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review

Abstract

Active assisted living (AAL) aims to use innovative technologies to create supportive, inclusive, and empowering applications and environments that enable older, impaired or frail people to live independently and stay active longer in society. This chapter provides an introduction to the main concepts of AAL, provides a brief history of the evolution of such technologies, and gives a functional view of how AAL system architecture can be conceptualized. It then provides a taxonomy of AAL technologies and applications, followed by technological underpinnings of audio- and video- based AAL.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Intelligent Systems Reference Library
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	3-44
Number of pages	42
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-84158-3_1
Publication status	Published - 2025

Publication series

Name	Intelligent Systems Reference Library
Volume	270
ISSN (Print)	1868-4394
ISSN (Electronic)	1868-4408

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© The Author(s) 2025.

Keywords

AAL taxonomy
Active assisted living (AAL)
Audio-signal processing
Computer vision
Data sensing and processing
Multimodality
Silver economy
Wearable sensing

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Colantonio, S., Aleksic, S., Calleja Agius, J., Camilleri, K. P., Čartolovni, A., Climent-Pérez, P., Cristina, S., Despotovic, V., Ekenel, H. K., Erakin, M. E., Florez-Revuelta, F., Germanese, D., Grech, N., Emirzeoğlu, M., Iliev, I., Islind, A. S., Jovanovic, M., Kampel, M., Kearns, W., ... Zgank, A. (2025). A Historical View of Active Assisted Living. In Intelligent Systems Reference Library (pp. 3-44). (Intelligent Systems Reference Library; Vol. 270). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-84158-3_1

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A Historical View of Active Assisted Living. / Colantonio, Sara; Aleksic, Slavisa; Calleja Agius, Jean et al.
Intelligent Systems Reference Library. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2025. p. 3-44 (Intelligent Systems Reference Library; Vol. 270).

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